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Administration of Amazon Redshift Connector

As a user, you can use Amazon Redshift Connector after the organization administrator ensures that users have access to the Secure Agent directory that contains the success and error files. This directory path must be the same on each Secure Agent machine in the runtime environment. The organization administrator must also perform the following tasks:

Get the Amazon Redshift JDBC URL.

Manage Authentication. Use either of the following two methods:

Create an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

Provide the values for access key ID and secret access key when you configure the Amazon Redshift connection. For more information about creating an access key ID and secret access key, see the AWS documentation.

Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Authentication to enhance security.

If you use IAM authentication, do not provide access key ID and secret access key explicitly in the Amazon Redshift connection. Instead, you must create an Redshift Role Amazon Resource Name (ARN), add the minimal Amazon IAM policy to the Redshift Role ARN, and add the Redshift Role ARN to the Redshift cluster.

Provide the Redshift Role ARN in the AWS_IAM_ROLE option in the UNLOAD and COPY commands when you create a task.

If you specify both, access key ID and secret access key in the connection properties and AWS_IAM_ROLE in the UNLOAD and COPY commands, AWS_IAM_ROLE takes the precedence.

You must add IAM EC2 role and IAM Redshift role to the customer master key when you use IAM authentication and server-side encryption using customer master key.

Hosted Agent does not support IAM authentication. For more information about how to configure IAM authentication for Amazon Redshift Connector, see IAM authentication

Configure Amazon Redshift for SSL if you want to support an SSL connection.

Create a master symmetric key if you want to enable client-side encryption.

Create an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)-managed customer master key if you want to enable server-side encryption.

Create minimal Amazon IAM policy for Amazon Redshift Connector.

When you create a temporary table for an upsert, update, or delete operation in the local staging area, you must create the temporary table in the following format:

RecordName + "_" + time-stamp + ProcessID + PartitionId

By default, you have the permission to create the temporary tables as you have the PUBLIC group membership. To deny the permission, revoke the TEMP permission from the PUBLIC group and allow the TEMP permission to specific or groups of individuals.

Introduction to Amazon Redshift Connector

Configure Amazon Redshift Connector for SSL

Create a minimal Amazon IAM policy

IAM authentication

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